Online Businesses Feel Impact Of Attack
News Some online auction sellers apparently attempted to cash in on the disaster, listing World Trade Center and Osama bin Laden-related items on eBay and Yahoo's auction site. Grounding the nation's planes has also stalled deliveries for online...
[September 13, 2001, 9:36]
Priceline To Put Travel Services On EBay
News The travel services e-tailer will list airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals, cruises, timeshares and vacation packages on the online auction site. People will be able to book flights and hotel rooms and make car reservations through the...
[February 4, 2002, 6:31]
Priceline To Unveil Second Asian Site
News Priceline.com is set to kick off its second travel auction site in Asia, despite being snubbed by two major regional airlines. However, the auction site operator could not attract Cathay Pacific Airways, which is responsible for the bulk of Hong...
[May 24, 2002, 7:32]
Priceline Asia To Launch By Year End
News US-based reverse auction site Priceline.com is planning to roll out its services in Asia by year end through its Hong Kong-based joint venture. According to a Hutchison-Pricline spokesperson, its business in Asia will offer similar reverse auction...
[August 10, 2001, 17:26]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves Sale Agreed
News Using sponsored advertising, search engines auction off popular search terms to the highest bidders, whose ads are then featured alongside search results produced for the terms or phrases. At that time, the company split off its extensive online...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
Consumers Thrive As B2B Trembles
News Even as the tech-saturated Nasdaq composite index has shed a fifth of its value since the year began, shares of auction king eBay have nearly doubled in value. Part of the reason why leading consumer tech companies look promising this year might be...
[August 13, 2001, 13:33]
2001: The Weird World Of Tech
News A tech businesswoman in the UK advertised herself for sale as a wife on eBay, but the auction site pulled the ad, saying gimmicks like marriage weren't really the sort of thing they were comfortable selling.
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Startup Spotlight: QXL.com
News In all likelihood, only one auction site will become a clear winner, and it is important that our priority is to win this position. People who want to sell their items use us to auction it off. The "Safe Pay/ Safe Ship" initiative is the most...
[November 17, 1999, 17:36]
AOL Members Set Shopping Record
News Comscore Networks, which tracks e-tail activity, reported last week that online shoppers were on track to hit, or slightly beat, its forecast of $10bn to $10.25bn for the fourth quarter, excluding travel and auction sales.
[January 2, 2002, 16:39]
News Roundup: Attack On America
News Thursday 13th September Items relating to Tuesday's devastation have been removed from the eBay auction site until 1 October Friday 14th September Ticketless travel has been catching on, but now much of its convenience will disappear
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Case Threatens Search Engines' Use Of Trademarks
News Google, the darling of Internet search engines, faces trademark complaints from advertisers of its popular keyword-auction programme that charge misuse of their trademarks. That means that when a visitor searches on the term "travel," for example...
[January 16, 2004, 8:25]
Amazon Sellers Fume Over Auction Glitch
News Sellers pay Amazon to promote their listings in prominent places on its auction site. Amazon's auction site has battled a number of glitches and outages in recent months. Meanwhile, Deborah Linder, who sells antiques through Amazon's auction site...
[May 31, 2001, 9:52]
Airports Face Growing Mountain Of Unclaimed Laptops
News At Heathrow an average of around 120 laptops is handed in every month, of which at least 15 or so will end up at auction. Heathrow airport, the busiest international airport in the world, serves millions of business travellers each month, many of...
[September 4, 2006, 9:50]
LineOne's Future On The Line
News LineOne may face the auction block as parent companies United News and Media and BT (quote: BT) look to raise cash, according to industry sources. More recently News International's stake was bought out by United News and Media, which last week...
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
Expedia May Start Spin-off Phase For Microsoft
News Following that logic, Microsoft could just auction off each section of MSN. Of course, Expedia is anything but the next Microsoft of online travel because it faces a lot of competition, but you never know.
[November 11, 1999, 15:54]
Would You Buy An Old Master Online?
News In the first phase of the auction, which comprised 600 lots, roughly half were sold, bringing in nearly $100,000. These sites, and others like them, are aiming their brushes at both traditional art buyers and those who may never have hung anything...
[January 10, 2000, 9:10]
Tackling The Challenges Of Tech Innovation
News Researchers must travel a lot to get new ideas and prototypes in front of the right people, Levin said.eBay's Mancini said the auction company does two big things to promote creativity. He said that in the past year developers have created an...
[August 18, 2008, 11:58]
UK Tech Stocks Take A Hammering
News Auction site QXL.com (quote: QXL) was down 38 to 912p, while travel specialist lastminute.com (quote: LMC), which many see as the epitome of the Internet bubble economy, was down 27 to about 195p amid reports that refund cheques sent to investors...
[April 4, 2000, 14:26]
Lastminute.com Auctions First UK WAP Phone
News The auction is in association Orange and offers the Orange Nokia 7110e, which won't launch officially until next week. Evidently feeling guilty about exploiting all those orang-utans in its recent advertising campaign, Orange is donating the...
[November 16, 1999, 12:41]
